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Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Members: Check me out in this promo for "APE Presents", a reality TV Show airing Tuesday nights at 12:30am in New York City on MNN TV-56 (and streamed on the web at www.mnn.org)
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The Wu-Tang Clan & producer Faust guest star with me in APE Presents "Get Your Shine On with Jori Jordon".
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Jori Jordon has always had a passion for the performing arts, especially dance. At just three years she started to take dance lessons with Eva Lorraine's Oak Park Civic Ballet, where from the age of three to fourteen she studied classical ballet. During this period, Jori appeared in several ballet suites, including The Nutcracker, A Rhapsody In Blue, and Swan Lake. After building a strong classical foundation, Jori entered the Academy of Movement and Music for a year to further refine her techniques under the teachings of Homer Bryant and several other accomplished dance instructors.
Intent on diversifying her dance training, Jori then joined the Joel Hall Dance Center for four years to study under Vanessa Truvillian and Joel Hall. There she studied jazz, modern dance (Martha Graham style), hip-hop, Egyptian, African tribal and Calypso, as well as advanced pointe. Jori also performed in various dance workshops and productions with the Joel Hall Dance Company. Even with a vigorous, six-day-a-week dance training schedule, Jori also made time to compete on the varsity gymnastics team at Oak Park River Forest High School and dance in a workshop with Ben Vereen.
Jori has danced for numerous hip-hop artists in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City, including Pharell Williams, N.E.R.D, KaYE West , Cappadonna, Killah Priest, Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel,The Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief and The Wu-Tang Clan. She also danced as Josephine Baker, performing her famous Banana Dance in the play Forgotten Pearls at the Legacy Cultural Theatre in Blue Island, Illinois. Jori also appeared on WGN's The Morning Show, performing a short, self-choreographed dance and magic show with Top Hat, a grand master magician. She was also recently featured stepping, a Chicago style of ballroom dance, with George Daniels of George's Music Room, a segment on BETs 106 and Park.
Jori recently completed a TV pilot with celebrity fashion designer / stylist Indashio (Lil' Kim, Eve, Nicky Hilton, ect...), and she has two other TV pilots in the works. In the second one, she has teamed with hip-hop legend Melle Mel (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five). Melle Mel is the leader of the first and only rap group ever nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! The third of Jori's three new TV pilots is called "Get Your Shine On" and features appearences by the entire Wu-Tang Clan and 2005 BET female hip-hop artist of the year Remy Ma.Stay tuned!!!
Jori Jordon in the new Mele Mel music video "M3 (a.k.a. The New Message") (slide show below)
Influences: People of the past and present, who have paved the way for me to exist as an artist/ entertainer: GOD,Debbie Allen, Josephine Baker, Angela Davis, Madonna, Oprah, Maya Angelo, Madonna, Willie Ninja ( who blessed me as a ninja ), Gail Davis ( my Mother ) Fannie Davis ( my Grandmother / Diva, Baryshnikov and many others.
Sounds Like: A Star.
Type of Label: Major
